Pith Number

pith:PWC2Y7BJ

pith:2016:PWC2Y7BJLZ2IDUDIAIVJFMCFOR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Does Having More Options Mean Harder to Reach Consensus?

Degang Wu, Kwok Yip Szeto

arxiv:1606.03686 v2 · 2016-06-12 · physics.soc-ph

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PWC2Y7BJLZ2IDUDIAIVJFMCFOR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:11:58.780672Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d85ac7c295e7481d068022a92b0457451ff5263ae5cd7ff53103b426fee56fc

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.03686 · arxiv_version: 1606.03686v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.03686 · pith_short_12: PWC2Y7BJLZ2I · pith_short_16: PWC2Y7BJLZ2IDUDI · pith_short_8: PWC2Y7BJ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PWC2Y7BJLZ2IDUDIAIVJFMCFOR \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 7d85ac7c295e7481d068022a92b0457451ff5263ae5cd7ff53103b426fee56fc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f2b08b90752bac0c62421236f17a7b4a4a007194bd870b77efc7e6c517deb5a3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.soc-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-12T09:13:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "169ead0c957bcc9901f4afa8eedbc550dd8c8013f24d719b75b7ec35b8244ac5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.03686",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}